Ammo Baba has died!

Iraq's most popular soccer player and former Iraqi national soccer coach Ammo Baba, who's real name is Emmanuel Baba Dawud, has died in a hospital on May 28, 2009, in the northern city of Dohuk from ill health.He was 74 years of age.

The picture shows Ammu Baba poses during a training session with under 17 youth players 15 February 2002 in Baghdad.

He was mourned by Iraqis and sporting officials, who said his death was a loss for Iraqi soccer. “Ammo represented all that was good about Iraqi football,” said Najih Hammoud, the first deputy of Iraq’s soccer federation.

Dawud first gained notoriety in Iraq after scoring the country’s first goal in an international game in the 1957 Pan Arab games.

He was named coach of the national team in 1978, and later lead Iraq to two Olympic appearances in 1984 and 1988.

I feel very sad because we lost a real and an honest man who served and loved Iraq and the Iraqis during the rest of his life.

May Allah bless him and grant him peace

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Aisling weather Forecast!

Aisling is a kind colleague who is studying with me in college. She is clever, hardworking, funny, simple, ready to help others and also moody.The fact that she is a moody girl means, she might change her mind at any minute.There are many factors for this psychological phenomenon.Obviously, she bears some responsibility but I believe there are other factors such as genetics and weather.The weather here is unstable and changes quickly which means having four seasons in one day. I think the stability and instability in weather conditions is affecting people's behavior anywhere in the world.Therefore, the moody behavior of Aisling is caused in large part by the unstable weather. To have an idea about the level of her moodiness, just read what I call, Aisling weather forecast:

9am: Partly Cloudy = Approach her with caution

10am: Mostly Cloudy = Just say yes or no.It's getting very serious now

11am: Rain = Wear an anti-bullet overcoat. Risk your life by saying any thing

12am: Freezing heavy rain = Wear a very thick anti-bullet overcoat and carry with you a good quality heater1pm

1am: Thunderstorms & Zero visibility = Don't go near her, she is going to kill you

2pm: Sunny = Approach her, she is very chatty now

3pm: Sunny and hot = Good time for political, cultural, social, economical or scientific discussions

4pm: Very hot = Time to talk about love and romance

5pm: Gone to the pub = She says one drink but it means a full session of drinking specially on Friday and Saturday nights. if you are a none drinker like me better to be away

Khalid

The Physics of Love

The Physics of Love

I was asked by my friend Tara to say something about the link between love and Physics.

"A man and a girl can be just friends but at one point or another one of them will fall for the other, maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late or maybe, just maybe...forever."


Now the forces behind the act of refusing or accepting each other could be looked at using all the laws of Physics. Also the same physical laws could be used to study any relationship, a successful one or a failed one.

Therefore you could explore the physics of love and consciousness in a very easy and exciting manner using the universal laws of Physics, which are applicable to the act of loving and obviously to the act of not loving too.

So how we are going to explain in terms of physics a very important phenomenon such as your first love, your love affairs or in general the status of your heart?

There are three possibilities for any particle:

1. To have a Stable Orbit ( your heart is claimed by somebody)
The particle will achieve an orbit without loosing energy over time

2. To have a Collapsing Orbit (No real love but machinery loves)
The particle will descend into the object of attraction loosing more and more energy over time until collapse

3. To have an Infinite orbital (No love at all)
The particle will move away from the object of attraction and at such a point will move beyond the object's attractive field.

Remember that always there is an uncertainty in love due to Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty.

Heisenberg showed that no matter how accurate the instruments used, quantum mechanics limits the precision in love affairs or in Physics when two properties are measured at the same time. For the moving electron (could be your heart), the variables are in two pairs: momentum and position are one pair, and energy and time are another. Roughly speaking, the relation between momentum and position is like the relation between energy and time. This means we can not measure accurately your love momentum in whatever direction and the time together with the amount of your given energy to a certain affairs. Always there is an uncertainty there.

Finally if you want to fall in love tonight then you should study all the forces acting upon you and directing you in your day to day life and start to show your reaction to your own universe.

Chicken a la Carte:Lets help the needy

Chicken a la Carte

Synopsis: This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who lives on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left these people.

Director: Ferdinand Dimadura

Please share with family and friends.

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

The Islam of Taliban

I believe very strongly that the Taliban should be regarded as a part of the old dark ages when there was no freedom or civilization but psychological repression, torture and unjustified killing.

Wahhabism is the extremist sect to which the Taliban belong. I have to remind you that most -if not- all the suicidal killers who attacked New York, London, Madrid, Baghdad and other cities are followers of Wahhabism.In the minds of many trained Talibanized Wahhabi, to kill somebody who just happened to have different views is normal for them. This constitutes a main part of their believes. Also, Taliban believes that society is built around the full authority of men which led to the total exclusion of Women from public life when they governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001.

Iran's former President Mohammad Khatami in the 2002 described the Taliban as:

"The Islam of Taliban belongs to those who are portraying the beautiful religion of God as ugly with their repellent views and backward ideology as well as their fossilized habits and rigid-mindedness and their attitude towards religion is based on a bunch of illusions and antiquated habits."

When I saw the above video yesterday for the first time I felt very sick. However, when I thought for a while about Taliban's crimes in the past and current times, I told myself this barbaric act against an innocent little girl is the least that you would expect from such narrow minded and brainless killers.

I leave it for you to think and decide about the Islam of Taliban.

The Iraqi new elected local governments

I felt so happy to see the overall success of the recent provincial elections which were held in our country Iraq on 31 January 2009. Needless to say that these elections were associated with some mistakes but we know that democracy is a learning process and our democracy will gain maturity as it goes.

I believe it is very vital to hold the new local governments accountable for what they promised to do when they were running as candidates in these elections. They should be questioned all the time about their performance and actions because they were elected to serve the people of Iraq and not for any thing else and as such they should find the most efficient and transparent ways to execute their dutiess.

Every election and the Iraqi people will be getting closer to a total prosperity they deserve and to live the nice life they want to live.